Jewel-gage.



P. W. SEIDL, DECD. M. SEIDL, EXECUTRIX.

` JEWEL GAGE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 21, 1912.

1,093,360. Patented Apr. 14, 19m

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FRANK W. SEIDL, DECEASEID, LATE OF MANITOWOC, WISCONSIN, BY MINNIE SEIDL, EXECUTRIX, 0F MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

JEWEL-GAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. la, i914.

To all wlw/1a t may concern Be it known that I, MINNIE Sinni., a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of lliilwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of lVisconsin, do declare that FRANK W. SEIDL, deceased, late of the city and county of Manitowoc, State of Wisconsin, did invent certain new and useful Improvements in J ewel-Grages, of which the following is a specication.

The invention has relation to means for facilitating the selection of jewels employed in watches and other time pieces and reducing to a minimum the inadvertent loss of the same in handling. To enable the said invent-ion to be better understood, a brief statement as to the nature and character of these jewels may be necessary. T'heseso-called jewels are mainly made of precious stone, more often of ruby, garnet, etc. They are employed as bearings for shafts, pivots, arbors and the like in all kinds of time pieces. They are ordinarily so minute that not only does their handling become a delicate matter, but their selection for the particular bearing required is a matter of great difficulty, requiring great expertness. They are made in various sizes and shapes by experts and they are packed and sold, as a general rule, in small packages, with some attempt to regulate size and shape, but on account of their minuteness, this has not been within reasonable limits possible. These jewels are sold to watchmakers and importers in packages. In order to fit the jewel to the appropriate part of the watch mechanism, it has been necessary to employ a pair of tweezers and the watchmaker selects these ewels from the package one after the other, repeat-ing the operation until he finds 'the jewel of the proper size and shape. It very often occurs that a number of these are lost during this work by snapping out from the tweezers. Other things happen which tend to make this work diiiicult and expensive.

It is the object of t-he invention, to a large extent, to avoid these difficulties, to provide means for the grouping together of these jewels in various sizes, each group in a separate receptacle, and to provide a gage which will form a standard for the other jewels contained in said receptacle, whereby the standard jewel may be applied to the desired part of the watch without danger of its being lost or placed in an improper positlon so that the particular kind, size and shape of jewel may be readily ascertained, and when so ascertained removed from the receptacle and placed by the watchmaker in its proper position. These results are secured by the construction and combination hereinafter described and more fully pointed out in the claims.

Means for carrying out this invention may be variously embodied. One embodiment thereof is disclosed in the drawings forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a box or casing holding a plurality of bottles or vials; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional elevation of one of these vials containing pre-gaged jewels, and having the jewel gage attached to and carried by its cork or stopper; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged View of the cork and suspended gage, part of the cork being broken away to disclose the connection of the gage stem therewith.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding pa-rts throughout the several views.

l. is a transparent bottle or viali, preferably of glass, and having a lip 2 by means of which it may be suspended on the perforated plate or board 3 of a suitable box t. The stock jewels are placed in the bottle as indicated at 5 and each of the bottles is provided with labels or the like upon which the size of the jewels contained in the bottle is marked. Preferably, each bottle is provided with a cork G and it is preferred to 4produce numerals 7 or other means of identifying the sizes, etc., of the jewels contained in the bottles on the corks, so that when they are arranged in the box, as shown in Fig. 1, the watchmaker can very readily ascertain the particular size jewel that he desires. In this manner, one of the difficulties in handling these articles is avoided.

In accordance with the embodiment disclosed the gage is formed by providing the cork with a pendent projection or stem 8,y

preferably a piece of wire having a` point 9, so that it can be readily inserted into the cork which has a lateral projection or offset l0, preferably flattened, to the underside of which one of the jewels 11 corresponding with those contained in the bottle is firmly attached as by cement l2 or in any other desired way. It is preferred that the jewel eX- tends from the bar or rod in the direction of the length or axis thereof, so that when the attached jewel is to be used as a gage in ascertaining the correct size, etc., of the jewel desired, it will be in a position to be more conveniently used. The jewels most usually selected are technically called "roller jewels," and it is the attempt to fit these particu-'lar jewels into that part of the watch called the table roller or to fit the watch in the esca-pement fork, that is one of the most trying pieces of work the watchmaker or repairer has to contend with. The attachment of the jewel to the gage stem is had in such a way that almost the entire length of the jewel is exposed, and it is supported from or secured to the gage stem in such a way as to enable it to be applied to all the parts of the watch where the use of the jewels is had with great facility.

By means of the foregoing device, the watchmaker can determine at a glance the particular size of jewel required for the work and by removing the cork and testing the jewel attached to the gage stem he can, without any difficulty, and without any loss of jewels, determine exactly the exact jewel required. Havingdetermined this, he can then remove a jewel from the bottle, and insert it in its proper place. In this manner, the loss of jewels in the attempt to ascertain the proper one to be used, the loss of time Copies of this patent may be obtained for ive cents each, by addressing the and uncertainty in the work, are all vre!- moved. Y I

It will be clear from the foregoing that the said invention is broader than its embodiment in the means specically disclosed herein, so that it is not intended to limit said invention to such means, it being deemed that the same is broad enough to include all means comprehended by the claims appended hereto.

What is claimed is 1. A jewel gage comprising a stopper, a stem secured to said i stopper, an oifset formed on said stem at an angle to the axis thereof, and a jewel secured to said offset so as to depend from the under side thereof in the direction of the axis of said stem.

2. A jewel gage comprising a stopperga stem detachably secured to said stopper and a jewel secured to said stem.

3. A jewel gage comprising a stopper, a stem having a sharpened point inserted into said stopper and pendent therefrom and a jewel secured to said stem.

Signed at the city of Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, this 18 day of March, 1912. MINNIE SEIDL,

Emecurz'm of the last 'will vmol testament oft F raak W. Seidl, deceased. IVitnesses B. A. SCHOENWETTER, JACOB BEST.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

